Judges 12:15

in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites The Amalekites, however, were settled not in Ephraim, but in the Negeb, S. of Judah. It is true that ch. Judges 5:14 brings Ephraim into connexion with Amalek, but the text is too uncertain (see note in loc.) to be used in support of the present passage. Moore (Polychr. Bible) notices that a group of mss. of LXX read -in the hill country of Ephraim, in the land of Sellçm," cf. 1 Samuel 9:4, where the Saaleim of LXX. cod. A. = the Hebr. Shaâlim. Since there is no way of accounting for the reading of these mss. by any confusion of letters, it may well be that they have preserved the true text here: in the hill country of E ., in the land of Shaâlim.